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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785668703321

Autore

Radford Andrew D. <1972->

Titolo

Mapping the Wessex novel [[electronic resource] ] : landscape, history and the parochial in British literature, 1870-1940 / / Andrew Radford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010

ISBN

1-282-76571-X

9786612765711

1-4411-4833-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Continuum literary studies

Disciplina

823/.8099427

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Landscapes in literature

Local history in literature

Regionalism in literature

Wessex (England) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Hardy's Heathens; 3 Archaeophobia: A Fear of Old Things; 4 Mystical Secrets and Lies; 5 The Return of the Nativist; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

By discussing the work of Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys and Mary Butts,  Mapping the Wessex Novel  imaginatively maps and excavates various districts of the 'west country' so as radically to redefine the 'parochial'; while being keenly aware of their own status as natives locked into complex histories of self-exile and return, estrangement and ardent identification. Contributing to the growing research on space and place in Victorian and Modernist writing, Radford uses the analysis of these writers as a lens through which to inspect the relationship between rural periphery